Broken Parents
… were broken children
Who lacked the nurturing they deserved…
Once little, vulnerable and innocent…
When contemplating another’s behavior… one must be compassionate… It takes a strong person to stop the cycle… we are what we know, and in hindsight, there are good parts to every story…
We are cultivated by our beginnings… and when a child feels unseen, and unsupported by preoccupied parents, questions loom… subconsciously.
… and we find later on in life, that those are questions we will answer for ourselves… nothing external will tell us… they are only clues.
Within our unsteady circumstances, we create our own prisons… and inhabit those small spaces for too long… but the good news is that we have the key to break free… and encourage those budding parts of us that lay dormant… or have never had the chance to shine.
As ‘comfortably uncomfortable’ we might be… at any point in our life, we can choose to be more than we know… and let go of the old…